Welcome back to Contempt of City Council where we show you how outdoor advertising companies continue to operate illegal billboards after our City Councillors reject the variances for the signs.
On September 10, 2007 Toronto and East York Community Council rejected the variance for Titan’s Outdoor’s illegal sign on the easterly elevation of 443 University Ave:

This [...]

In Audit: 90 Harbour Street, we delineated over five and a half years of bungled and ineffective law enforcement action against the illegal expressway sign on the westerly elevation of this designated historic building. Today the story continues unabated.
On Tuesday June 26, 2007, City Councillors, having considered the issue of the illegal 90 Harbour [...]

The Municipal Licensing and Standards Division in conjunction with the Planning and Buildings Divisions will monitor all sign variances and applications for sign permits and take the necessary actions to ensure that the provisions in the By-law are followed and the decisions of City Council are respected.
-Municipal Licensing and Standards to Toronto and East York [...]

Welcome back to Contempt, where we take a look at illegal signs that are still being operated after City Council rejected the variance for the signs.
Today, we look at Pattison’s massive iPod ad at King and Spadina:

The interesting thing about this file: City Council granted a variance to paint a third party sign at this [...]

Welcome back to Contempt of City Council, where we show how advertising companies continue to operate illegal billboards after City Council rejects the variance for these signs. Today we look at 99 Spadina Ave and we also take a look at how Municipal Licensing and Standards botched their investigation of this illegal billboard and determined [...]